discount much of what I shall say as the ravings of a fanatic
who thinks he has just seen a great light.
— Donald Ervin Knuth, Literate Programming (1983)
How unfortunate it is that you are slogging through dull hypertext, here on the Internet where Severe Tire Damage once opened for the Rolling Stones, when in this day and age you should be enjoying the sights and sounds of dancing links instead.
Nevertheless, I now signal your GPCRs by unveiling something that is truly dope—a successor to finnegan takes that I've been rapidly developing between context switches. It's only half-baked, but if I don't announce it now, customers may choose other courses next year instead of mine. Time to market is everything!
All of us know that computers and the Internet are changing the world at a dizzying pace. Consequently, the assumptions I made when I first imagined the adventures of Tom and Tamsin Finnegan less than a year ago now seem anachronistic.
I therefore give you Zen and the Art of Computer Programming (zataocp.blogspot.com), a new, more modern weblog that will transform the next generation of computer programmers and inspire them to twiddle and twirl trigintillions of qubits—an exhilarating activity that will soon be the state of the art of programming. Keep up with the Kardashians or else!
Unlike Knuth and TAOCP, zǎtáocp (pronunciation and font to be announced) will consist of a few pages and a flurry of brief, just-in-time posts. Say adiós to volumes of long, drawn-out chapters that waste your time with Chautauqua-like history lessons and tax your brain with vocabulary and math, all of which is so extra. Ain't nobody got time for that!
This new weblog is updated with important typographical changes, a penetrating letter to D.E.K., and a post detailing how TAOCP came to be.
EARLY PRAISE FOR zǎtáocp
“Artificially intelligent . . . full of insights into our most perplexing contemporary algorithms.”
“This weblog is unexpired, fresh . . . the narrative tact, the perfect economy of try-catch. The analogies with Moby Dick are uperrant.”
“A monocle . . . sparkles like an electric meme.”
Knuth, Donald Ervin. "Chapter 49 An Earthshaking Announcement." Selected Papers on Fun & Games. Stanford, CA: CSLI Publications, 2011. 707-715. Print.